Development itinerary for synodal missionaries

Abstract

We currently live in the Digital Age, a period characterized by a focus on profitability and high performance, which consequently generates an anthropocentric and hopeless society that seeks happiness in the material and temporary goods of the world, relativizing human relationships and forgetting the values of the Kingdom of God.  In this context, human beings place Financial Capital as the “Lord of their lives,” and advanced technological solutions such as Artificial Intelligence become tools at the service of this False Lord.  The example of Christ becomes antagonistic and uninteresting compared to what the world offers as a path to prosperity, a fact evidenced by the reduction in the number of Catholics worldwide in recent years.  In this sense, based on the author’s master’s research – *Missiology in Times of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities for Awakening Faith in the Digital Age* – and more specifically on the four opportunities identified to help awaken faith, we present a proposal for a kerygmatic development itinerary for the missionaries of our Church.  The objective is to introduce a path to train and thus prepare them to act in the world and be salt and light in their realities, awakening in those around them the desire to follow the Risen One and to work for the Kingdom.